After the 3 June 2018 parliamentary elections, Marjan Šarec, leader of LMŠ, began coalition talks with SD, SMC, SAB and DeSUS.

Shortly after that New Slovenia (NSi) joined the talks in order to become the sixth coalition party and ensure a parliamentary majority of at least 46 votes.

[4][5] On 8 August 2018 MPs of LMŠ, SD, SMC, SAB and DeSUS submitted the candidature of Marjan Šarec for the 13th Prime Minister of Slovenia.

On 10 August parties of the coalition and The Left initialed an agreement about cooperation which secured Šarec enough votes for election.

(SOVA)–Took office 27 September 2018 It was very clear from the beginning of the negotiations that DeSUS will take over Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food.

SD stated that they do not want to take over the Ministry after Dejan Židan led it in the Pahor, Bratušek and Cerar government.

Candidates[10]Social Democrats was the only party that publicly showed their interest to take over Ministry of Culture.

Some seen this as a potential reason for Šarec failure to form the government if he will not be able to find the consensus between the parties.

Vojmir Urlep was seen as a candidate at first, but later Marjan Šarec stated that he is satisfied with the work of Mateja Vraničar Erman.